Obituary of Thelma Grace Harris

Thelma G. Harris, age 88 of Iowa City died Thursday, March 2, 2006, at the Solon Nursing and Care Center following a brief illness. Funeral services will be held at 10:30 a.m., Tuesday. March 7, 2006, at Gay & Ciha Funeral and Cremation Service in Iowa City with the Reverend Courtney Ball officiating. Burial will be at Memory Gardens Cemetery in Iowa City. Visitation will be one hour prior to the services on Tuesday at the funeral home. Memorial donations can be made in her memory to the First United Methodist Church in Iowa City. Online condolences may be sent for her family through our website @www.gayandciha.com. Thelma Grace Brown Harris was born July 27, 1917, in Elberon, Iowa the daughter of Clarence Ray and Grace (Messer) Brown. She attended schools in Guernsey and Marengo before graduating from Iowa City City High School. She married Robert Harris on May 28. 1960 in Iowa City. For over twenty-five years Thelma worked as an accountant for the United States Government, first in Ft. Harrison, IN and later at Ft. Knox in Kentucky. Upon her retirement she returned Iowa City where home had been and continued to be until her death. She was a longtime member of First United Methodist Church in Iowa City, United Methodist Women, Iowa City Business Women, and Beta Sigma Phi. Her family includes a sister-in-law, Dorothy Brown of Iowa City; and numerous nieces, nephews, great-nieces and nephews, and great-great-nieces and nephews. She was preceded in death by her parents, husband, and two brothers, John and Howard Brown. Gay & Ciha Funeral and Cremation Service is caring for Thelma’s family and her services.